Ian Douglas Nairn (24 August 1930 – 14 August 1983) was a British architectural critic who coined the word "Subtopia" to indicate drab suburbs that look identical through unimaginative town-planning. He published two strongly personalised critiques of London and Paris, and collaborated with Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, who considered his reports to be too subjective, but acknowledged him as the better writer.
Ian Douglas Nairn (24 August 1930 – 14 August 1983) was a British architectural critic who coined the word "Subtopia" to indicate drab suburbs that look...
in London' by architectural scholar Guy Williams. Architectural critic IanNairn wrote of the house, "If you want a definition of western civilization...
the Gothic styles, and has been described by the architectural critic IanNairn as "the most typical English Cathedral". Despite this, Chichester has...
exceptional interest), it has been described by architectural critic IanNairn as reflecting "the equivocal taste of the 1790s as well as anywhere in...
Mary's own original style". Other responses have been less positive. IanNairn, in the 1971 Surrey volume of the Buildings of England series, described...
Superseded and unpublished volumes. First published as Sussex – see above. IanNairn was only indirectly involved in the text under revision in this volume...
ritzy mews". The architectural critic IanNairn described the mews it as "a cathedral among mewses (sic)". The actor Ian Holm was a former resident of the...
(CIJ) Oswald Mosley, British Union of Fascists leader – Dolphin Square IanNairn, architectural critic – 14 Warwick Square Bill Nighy, actor Laurence Olivier...
gothic, displays a good deal of eccentricity and mixes many styles". IanNairn, the main author of the Surrey Pevsner, wrote of Barry's Tudor Revival...
further fourteen having their statuses upgraded. The architectural critic IanNairn wrote of Lutyen's Surrey "masterpieces" in the 1971 Surrey volume of the...
Institute of British Architects, RIBA. Following in the footsteps of IanNairn he made a series of four films, Outrage Revisited (2010) on the banality...
Bradt, p. 202, ISBN 9781841621937 "Bermondsey Photographs: The strange tale of Cardinal Cap Alley". Nairn, Ian (1966) Nairn's London, Penguin Books v t e...
design was to make it the Barbican of the south. Architecture critic IanNairn praised Eros House (Owen Luder, 1962) as: A monster sat down in Catford...
son Decimus Burton, was described by 20th century architectural critic IanNairn as 'a definition of Western civilization in a single view'. Burton also...
Activity space Place identity Place attachment Topophilia Yi-Fu Tuan IanNairn Marc Augé Jane Jacobs Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge...
Bridge". BBC News. BBC. 13 June 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012. Nairn, Ian (1970), Nairn's Europe: Newcastle - Aarhus, Newcastle: BBC Hough, Andrew (29 June...
Tower and five acres purchased". The Times. No. 43297. London. p. 13. IanNairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England - Surrey, Penguin, 1962 Historic...
beauty far greater than was ever theirs in the days of its newness". IanNairn, Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry, in the 1971 revised Surrey Pevsner...
"ashlar faced, simple Classical lines, and some good carved details". IanNairn, writing in the 1971 Surrey edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides...
century. It was built for the Gaynesfords, a family of wealthy yeomen. IanNairn, Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry, in the 1971 revised Surrey Pevsner...
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